6 Apr
2020
6 Apr
'20
11:47 a.m.
On 2020-04-05 23:41, J. David Bryan wrote:
My acquaintance with the HP Time-Shared BASICs is only
passing, and you
didn't mention where you picked up the CSL image, but the ones at
Bitsavers
appear to be selective dumps of various accounts. For those, you'd
want to
do a selective load of the desired files from the tape image.
If you're using the 2000F kit from the trailing-edge site, you can use
the
"tsb-man" startup file to begin a manual system startup. You'd answer
the
startup questions as follows:
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS? YES
NUMBER OF PORTS? <just press ENTER>
LOAD OR DUMP COMMANDS? LOAD
ENTER NAME LIST, ONE PER LINE; TERMINATE WITH 'END'
At this point, mount the CSL tape on the tape drive and then enter the
account and file names of the files you wish to restore. When you
enter
the END command, the system will load the named accounts or files from
the
tape.
Okay that is pretty much what I had been trying. Glad to know I haven't
lost the ability to read a manual in my old age. Beginning to think the
copy on Bitsavers isn't compatible. The first few tries I didn't see any
messages, it just went on to the enter date and time and start up but
when I'd check the account's directory there was nothing there. The last
couple of times I tried I did get a message about something unsupported
and listed something about 200 vs 1500 iirc (block size??). It asked if
I wanted to take responsibility and continue which I said yes but still
nothing appeared to be restored.
I'm using the stock system from http://simh.trailing-edge.com/hp/ with
the 2000F TSB software kit from there as well. There is nothing but a
couple of test programs installed with that setup. The CSL tape image
comes from Bitsavers as well and was the only copy I've found. It is
listed as the 2000F CSL so figured it was compatible. Could the Simh
hardware configuration in the default set up need to be changed? Looked
like you could simulate different tape drives.
One caveat: I don't know, but I suspect that the
selective dump tapes
are
version-specific, i.e., one for 2000 Access won't work on 2000F. I
don't
know with which systems the Bitsavers tapes are compatible.
I assumed so as well, I have another tape image I know is from a 2000
Access system and didn't bother to try it.
Best,
David Williams